from what place

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Adverbs are chiefly used to express in one word what would otherwise require two or more words; thus, There signifies in that place; whence, from what place; usefully, in a useful manner.

From How to Speak and Write Correctly by Devlin, Joseph

One day he gave me an account of a long march his company made, I forget from what place, but with Toronto as the objective point.

From The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion by Pope, Joseph, Sir

Olive searched for a bit of paper, something to show from what place or from whom this money came.

From The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series by Vandercook, Margaret

But the letters of Paul themselves make known to those who would know both what they are, and from what place, or what occasion they were sent.

From The Books of the New Testament by Pullan, Leighton

He took a great interest in our voyage and courses, as well as in the numerous curiosities, knowing at once from what place each had been procured.

From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Brassey, Annie